WAtoday.com.au producer

Police are questioning five men over a series of attacks, break-ins and thefts in an 800-kilometre rampage across WA's Goldfields region in less than 24 hours.

Detectives are investigating links between all the incidents, which started Sunday afternoon and continued throughout the night, stretching from Boulder to Monjingup, almost 400 kilometres away near Esperance, and then ending south of Kalgoorlie.

Starting in Boulder police were called to the home of a woman and her six-year-old son in Wittenoom Street at 3.30pm on Sunday after they had been allegedly threatened by three men, who stole a red Holden Commodore.

A vehicle matching this was then involved in police pursuits in Kalgoorlie, nearly 200 kilometres away in Norseman and Gibson. It was also allegedly used in fuel drive-offs in Boulder and Kambalda, 60 kilometres south of Kalgoorlie.

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At 8pm police were called to Davis Road in Monjingup, nearly 400 kilometres from Kalgoorlie.

An elderly couple were at home eating dinner when three men entered the property, attacked the 70-year-old man with what was believed to be a hammer and ransacked the house, before stealing the couple's Toyota hatchback.

The injured man was taken to hospital and is expected to be flown to Perth for treatment for a serious head wound by the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Police say a number of vehicles were used in an effort to close in on the offenders, including a vehicle check point south of Norseman.

About 10pm a Toyota hatchback matching the description of the one stolen from Monjingup drove through the checkpoint at high speed, almost running a police vehicle off the road.

It struck a stinger device causing a tyre to blow out but the driver continued to drive off towards the townsite and disappeared from sight.

Kambalda Police were called to head towards Norseman and another fuel drive-off was reported from a service station in Norseman.

Police believe the offenders were able to change the damaged tyre on the car and it was soon sighted by Kambalda Police near Widgimooltha, 100 kilometres south of Kalgoorlie, travelling at high speed.

More pursuit vehicles were sent in from Kalgoorlie and the stolen car was involved in another short pursuit, in which police deployed another stinger device.

This time two of the vehicle's tyres were blown out and the driver stopped the car.

Police say the occupants then opened the car doors but, as officers pulled alongside the vehicle, took off again, smashing into the side of the police car before heading into bushland.

Police then continued to pursue the vehicle at about 5km/h in the bushland, before the stolen vehicle became bogged and the occupants tried to flee.

All five occupants were apprehended and taken to Kalgoorlie Police Station where they are currently being interviewed by detectives.

WA Police said a team from the Perth forensic crime scene unit is also heading to the scene of the Monjingup incident.